9-letter words containing a, b, i
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- buildable — suitable for building on
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bulk-mail — to mail as bulk mail.
- bullarium — a collection of papal bulls.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- busticate — to break
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- by a hair — by a very slight margin, only just
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- caballine — pertaining to a horse
- caballing — a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
- cabbalism — cabala.
- cabbalist — cabala.
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
- cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
- calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambiform — resembling a cambium
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- cantabile — (to be performed) in a singing style, i.e. flowingly and melodiously
- cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
- carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
- carbamide — urea.
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
- carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification